Africa: Digital Transformation in a Post-Covid World - Africa Continues to Trail Other Regions Says New Report

The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and Portulans Institute, a research and educational think tank based in Washington DC, have teamed up to launch the results… Read more »

Africa: End Gender-Based Violence, 'Once and for All', UN Urges On International Day

Commemorating the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on Wednesday, the United Nations has called on governments worldwide to redouble efforts and… Read more »

Africa: West African Think Tanks and Experts Meet Virtually to Discuss Generational Economy and Structural Transformation in the Covid-19 Era

The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) Sub-Regional Office for West Africa, in partnership with the Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, today… Read more »

Africa: 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence

The UN Secretary-General's UNiTE by 2030 to End Violence against Women campaign is marking the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence (25 November to 10 December 2020)… Read more »

East Africa: New Report Reveals How Covid-19 Has Affected Eastern Africa

When the Covid-19 pandemic sent the global economy into a recession, the East Africa region was not spared. According to UN Economic Commission for Africa's Economic and Social… Read more »

Africa: AfCFTA Will Increase Demand for Transportation Infrastructure in Africa, Experts Say

Demand for transportation services in Africa will be on the increase as the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement goes into operations in January next year,… Read more »

East Africa: East Africa's Policymakers Call for Better Coordination to Build Back Better and More Sustainably

Policymakers from 14 countries of Eastern Africa kicked off their regional meeting known as 24th Meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee of Senior Officials and Experts (ICSOE)… Read more »

Africa: Secretary-General's Remarks On Racism in the Workplace

Dear Colleagues, Read more »

Africa: ECA-SRO-SA Supports the Validation of a Draft Financing Model for Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises in the Kingdom of Eswatini

The Government of the Kingdom of Eswatini, through the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Trade, requested for technical support from the United Nations Economic Commission for… Read more »

Africa: ECA Launches Atex, E-Commerce Platform That Will Support Transactions When AfCFTA Starts Next Year

The Economic Commission for Africa presented an online trading platform Thursday, that will facilitate trading between buyers and suppliers when the African Continental Free Trade… Read more »

Africa: African Statistics Day Marked Across Continent

Countries have embarked on national activities in celebration of the African Statistics Day on the theme "Modernizing national statistical systems to provide data and statistics to… Read more »

Africa: ECA Executive Secretary Calls On North African Countries to "Build Forward Together" for a Faster, Stronger Post-Covid-19 Economic Recovery

Rabat, 18 November (ECA) - "North Africa is the most impacted sub-region of our continent after Southern Africa, and although most of its countries are not in the low-income… Read more »

Africa: Secretary-General's Video Message to the Closing of the 15th Annual Internet Governance Forum - Internet Governance in the Age of Uncertainty

It is a pleasure to address this closing session of the fifteenth annual Internet Governance Forum. Read more »

Southern Africa: The Role of Private Sector in Post-Covid Recovery Strategies & Regional Integration in Southern Africa

The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) Sub-Regional Office for Southern Africa (SRO-SA), in collaboration with the SADC Business Council, organized a virtual… Read more »

Africa: ECA's Executive Secretary Asks Africa to Seek New Sectors Under AfCFTA to Industrialize and Create Jobs

The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) Vera Songwe today said as the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) goes into operation next year, the… Read more »

North Africa: North Africa 35th Icsoe to Discuss Conditions for Sound, Post-Covid-19 Recovery in North Africa

Rabat, 16 November (ECA) -The ECA office for North Africa will organise the 35th meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee of Senior Officials and Experts (ICSOE) for North Africa… Read more »

Namibia: ECA Calls for Ambition in the AfCFTA At Annual Bank of Namibia Symposium

The Bank of Namibia held its 21st Annual Symposium on 5 November under the theme of "Positioning Namibia to reap the benefits of the African Continental Free Trade Area."… Read more »

East Africa: A Regional Meeting to Discuss the Post-Pandemic Road to Social and Economic Recovery in East Africa

In this difficult context of global socioeconomic crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, the UN Economic Commission for Africa, through its office for Eastern Africa will… Read more »

Africa: World Diabetes Day

Globally, an estimated 422 million adults were living with diabetes in 2014, compared to 108 million in 1980. The global prevalence of diabetes has nearly doubled since 1980,… Read more »

Africa: Guterres Congratulates Biden and Harris, Hails UN-Us Partnership As 'Essential Pillar'

Senior UN officials have offered their congratulations to the president-elect of the United States Joe Biden, and vice president-elect Kamala Harris, on their election victory… Read more »

Africa: Deputy UN Chief Looks to 'New Dawn for Mali', Promotes Participation of Women in Country's Transition

The UN Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed on Friday has been strongly advocating for the greater participation of women and youth in Mali's ongoing transition towards a… Read more »

Africa: International Women's Day 2021 Theme - "Women in Leadership - Achieving an Equal Future in a Covid-19 World"

IWD 2021) as, "Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world." Read more »

Southern Africa: African Continental Free Trade Area Could Expand Opportunities for Women, Say Atpc-SADC Webinar Panelists

- The African Trade Policy Centre (ATPC) of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), the Southern African Development Community (SADC)-Women in Business, and the SADC Business… Read more »

Africa: Parliamentarians Have Critical Role to Play in Fight Against Covid-19 and Recovery

African parliamentarians have a critical role to play in enhancing the continent's resilience against health emergencies like the novel coronavirus through enacting effective… Read more »

Central Africa: Paradigm Shift Needed in Central Africa's Quest to Build Skills for Economic Diversification

A major paradigm shift in formal and hands-on training is required in Central Africa if the region is to successfully diversify its economies, ministers, dons, development experts… Read more »